https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-advent-calendar-2025-10/m-p/141598#M872 <P class="graf graf--p">Databricks goes native on Excel. You can now ingest + query&nbsp;.xls/.xlsx directly in Databricks (SQL + PySpark, batch and streaming), with auto schema/type inference, sheet + cell-range targeting, and evaluated formulas, no extra libraries anymore.</P> <P class="graf graf--p"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2025_10.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22200i91DDA4D1685891FF/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2025_10.png" alt="2025_10.png" /></span></P> Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:16:02 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2025-12-10T14:16:02Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-advent-calendar-2025-10/m-p/141598#M872 <P class="graf graf--p">Databricks goes native on Excel. You can now ingest + query&nbsp;.xls/.xlsx directly in Databricks (SQL + PySpark, batch and streaming), with auto schema/type inference, sheet + cell-range targeting, and evaluated formulas, no extra libraries anymore.</P> <P class="graf graf--p"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2025_10.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22200i91DDA4D1685891FF/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2025_10.png" alt="2025_10.png" /></span></P> Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:16:02 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-advent-calendar-2025-10/m-p/141598#M872 Hubert-Dudek 2025-12-10T14:16:02Z